Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus : : Gender, Law, and Society / / ed. by Martha Fineman, Terence Dougherty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Austin, Regina,; Brinig, Margaret F.,; Buchanan, Neil H.,; Carbone, June,; Dougherty, Terence,; England, Paula,; Ertman, Martha M.,; Fineman, Martha Albertson,; Kessler, Laura T.,; Kysar, Douglas A.,; Laquer Estin, Ann,; Lieberwitz, Risa L.,; Mayes, Elizabeth,; McClain, Linda C.,; McCloskey, Deirdre,; McCluskey, Martha T.,; Silbaugh, Katharine B.,; Stone, Katherine V. W.,; Strober, Myra H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dougherty, Terence,; Fineman, Martha,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (534 p.)

"The essays in this volume confront the inroads that economics has made into the legal academy. Law and Economics uses principles of neoclassical economics to develop laws and social policies that maintain if not bolster current allocations of power."-from the IntroductionThe Law and Economics school has had a significant impact on the legal and governmental landscape in the United States. It posits a perfectly rational "economic man"-homo economicus-who is unconstrained by familial and communal ties and who can and should make decisions solely in light of considerations of economic value. Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus offers a major intervention in debates about how law has come under the influence of economic principles. Drawing on the latest thinking in the fields of feminist legal theory, critical legal studies, and feminist economics, the essays critique the notion that legal and policy decisions should be made solely through the lens of economics. While the contributors question the wholesale incorporation of the neoclassical economic model into legal analysis, they do not all discard economic analysis and theory.Situated at the intersection of feminism, law, and economics, Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus will appeal to scholars and students of these disciplines as well as policy analysts and social theorists interested in family, education, labor, and welfare.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus -- Part 1: Law and Economics and Neoclassical Economic Theory -- Introduction -- 1. Economic Rhetoric, Economic Individualism, and the Law and Economics School -- 2. The Demoralization of Economics: Can We Recover from Bentham and Return to Smith? -- 3. Separative and Soluble Selves: Dichotomous Thinking in Economics -- Part II: Feminism Confronts Neoclassical Economic Theory and Law and Economics -- Introduction -- 4. Playing with Fire: Feminist Legal Theorists and the Tools of Economics -- 5. Feminism and Eutrophic Methodologies -- 6. Private Property, the Private Subject, and Women: Can Women Truly Be Owners of Capital? -- 7. Nest Eggs and Stormy Weather: Law, Culture, and Black Women's Lack of Wealth -- 8. Deconstructing the State-Market Divide: The Rhetoric of Regulation from Workers' Compensation to the World Trade Organization -- Part III: The Costs of the Free Market: Theories of Collective Responsibility and the Withering Away of Public Goods -- Introduction -- 9. Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, and Self-Sufficiency -- 10. The Politics of Economics in Welfare Reform -- 11. Deterring "Irresponsible" Reproduction through Welfare Reform -- 12. Feminist Economics: Implications for Education -- Part IV: Feminism, Economics, and Labor -- Introduction -- 13. The New Face of Employment Discrimination -- 14. Contingent Labor: Ideology in Practice -- 15. Commodification and Women's Household Labor -- 16. Is There Agency in Dependency? Expanding the Feminist Justifications for Restructuring Wage Work -- Part V: Economics and Intimacy: Gendered Economic Roles and the Regulation of Intimate Relationships -- Introduction -- 17. What Do Women Really Want? Economics, Justice, and the Market for Intimate Relationships -- 18. Can Families Be Efficient? A Feminist Appraisal -- 19. Some Concerns about Applying Economics to Family Law -- 20. The Business of Intimacy: Bridging the Private-Private Distinction -- Contributors -- Index